No deal would be worth it purely to see the bourgeois catastrophists on twitter complaining that they might not be able to get their favourite cheese for a few weeks as if it was the Blitz.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2020, 16:24, Reply)
I'm looking forward
to reading poor brexiteers moaning about not being able to get cheap booze and fags from France or Spain and how their food shop has gone up by 30% and their wages have gone down by 15%.
Moaning that Lidl and Aldi now cost as much as Tesco.
I'll still be able to get nice wine and cheese, I can afford the tariff. That's all it will mean, higher prices. Nice cheese will still be made in Italy, France etc, you will just have to pay a bit more to have it delivered from there instead of going to Waitrose or M&S.
Brexit is going to shaft poor people the most.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 9 Dec 2020, 16:41,
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Most of my medicine is currently imported from Spain where it's cheaper to make
Not a mild inconvenience.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 9 Dec 2020, 17:51,
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It's fun to recycle the same old right-wing talking points about your favourite neo-liberal trading bloc.
(, Wed 9 Dec 2020, 18:45, Reply)
Eh?
I mean, I can see it on the label, it says right there that it's made in Spain.
I have no problem with that: I want Spain to make my drugs if they're as competent about it as they've consistently proven to be. Don't care much whether my drugs come from Yorkshire, Wales, Spain, Greenland, India, or Peru.
But I don't believe we've put in train enough safeguards to the supply chain to manage the smooth flow of medicines post-Brexit. We still don't know if there's a trade deal or not, let alone where my medicine is going to come from. It ain't made in Yorkshire.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 9 Dec 2020, 22:50,
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Veering slightly off-topic
but I was a community pharmacist until recently (now no longer working with the general public, thank fuck).
About fifteen years ago, the company I was doing locum work with were getting a lot of parallel import drugs. Put simply, these are 'foreign' packs of drugs with labelling in English stuck on top of them. The drugs themselves are made to the same standards (sometimes in the same place) as the 'UK' ones, but they're cheaper to obtain from the wholesaler. [There's a whole different discussion to be had about why that is, but it can probably be boiled down to convoluted drug company profiteering.]
Anyway, a patient handed me a prescription for pravastatin. It was still under patent, so Lipostat was the only brand available. We only had the PI packs in stock, which were made in France. He made a point of asking if we had the British pack, because he didn't want to take any foreign medicine - "you wouldn't trust their food, so why should you trust their drugs?"
To keep him happy, I phoned the wholesaler and ordered him two UK packs of Lipostat. Which were made in Portugal.
If he was still alive in 2016, I think I can guess how he voted.
(, Thu 10 Dec 2020, 8:18, Reply)
Staying on-topic:
the pharmaceutical supply chain in the UK is interwoven with the EU at all levels. I honestly don't know how Brexit is going to play out in that regard, but at the very least I expect there to be major disruption. I hope I'm wrong.
(, Thu 10 Dec 2020, 8:21, Reply)
Guess where we get our water purification chemicals from?
Guess where we get our cancer treatments from?
Guess where we get our laws on nuclear waste from?
2020 Corona Virus: no pasta or toilet paper in the shops.
2021 No Deal Brexit: Hold my beer
(, Thu 10 Dec 2020, 10:08, Reply)